The Great Divide: As abortion debate shifts to state capitols & crt rms ..

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September 3, 2006

DAYTONA BEACH -- For those who grew up in the 1970s and later, abortion horror stories of wire clothes hangers, tissue-eating lye and rickety kitchen tables seem like grotesque folklore.

A return to those back-alley butcher days has seemed impossible for many of the children of Generations X and Y, even those who think Roe v. Wade ushered in a bloodier, more tragic era with the dramatic increase in abortions after they were legalized.

Now those fears are surfacing again, as both sides of the divisive issue seek ways to safeguard against abortion's dark past returning.

Even pro-choice advocates expect some sort of change in state and federal abortion laws within the next five to 10 years. The U.S. Supreme Court has enough conservative justices to challenge the 33-year-old right to abortion, and a growing number of governors and state legislatures are in the mood to crack down on abortion availability.

Dr. Randall Whitney, who has run one of the two abortion centers in Volusia County for three decades, isn't waiting for any court decisions or new laws to get out of the abortion business in Daytona Beach. He stopped doing abortions at the Family Planning Center two days ago, pushed by a protracted battle with the state over how his practice should be regulated.

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1. and we hold only a slim majority in the gen public.

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2. The supreme court does NOT have enough conservative judges

It's still 5-4. They need one more. All John Paul Stevens has to do is die while bush is still president for the anti-abortionists to have Roe v. Wade overturned.